Health and Safety

Abstract

Abstract Do human resource management ( HRM ) practices affect occupational health and safety? We first describe the prevalence of workplace injuries as an indicator of occupational health and safety in the United States, and then describe existing research on the relationship between HRM systems (e.g., “high‐performance work systems”) and occupational safety. This research helps to affirm evidence that some of the same mechanisms that encourage high organizational performance also have a beneficial relationship with occupational health and safety. We then focus on two particular HRM practices, namely, autonomous work design and relative compensation, detailing evidence of their effects on occupational health and safety at the individual and organizational levels of analysis.